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Alexandria Gazette
Alexandria, Alexandria County, District Of Columbia
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In New York, postmaster Gordon B. Woodson identifies the body of 18-year-old runaway Clinton B. Maddox from Virginia in the morgue on June 30. Maddox, who fled home on June 10 with John S. Cash, is believed by police to have committed suicide, though Woodson doubts it. No foul play evident.
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Runaway Virginia Boy Supposed to Have Committed Suicide
New York, June 30.—Gordon B. Woodson, postmaster at Lowesville, Amherst county, went yesterday to the Morgue to look for Clint, the mountaineer boy, for whom he had been searching New York for many wearisome days.
Woodson was accompanied by a policeman with whom they viewed the body thought to be that of "Clint." The postmaster's search had ended. It was "Clint." There were no marks on the body, no indications of foul play, yet Woodson couldn't subscribe to the police theory that 18-year old Clinton B. Maddox, son of Albert and Eliza Maddox, and he had deliberately ended his life.
Postmaster Woodson gathered together the few effects found in "Clint's" pockets: a jackknife, less than a dollar in change and a few papers. Then he returned to the Hotel Commodore, where since Monday he had been keeping vigil, hoping word would come to him regarding "Clint."
Maddox ran away from his home on June 10 with a companion, John S. Cash.
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New York
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June 30
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body of 18-year-old clinton b. maddox identified in morgue; no marks or indications of foul play; police theory of deliberate suicide, doubted by woodson.
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Gordon B. Woodson, postmaster from Lowesville, Virginia, identifies the body of runaway boy Clinton B. Maddox (Clint) in New York morgue after searching for days. Maddox, son of Albert and Eliza Maddox, ran away from home on June 10 with John S. Cash. Effects found: jackknife, less than a dollar, papers. Woodson returns to Hotel Commodore.